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Context

Giacoma Limentani’s Trilogia (2013) contains three
parts, each of which had previously been published as an
independent text: In contumacia [In absentia]
(1967), Dentro la D [Within the D] (1992), and
La spirale della tigre [The Tiger’s Spiral]
(2003). Although some minor details vary, these three texts have
the same first-person narrator and tell different aspects of the
same story: twelve-year-old Mina, left alone one afternoon of
September 1938 with a sick grandmother in her family apartment in
Rome, is raped by Fascist thugs and struggles for years to cope
with this traumatic experience and its aftermath. The Fascists rape
the girl mainly to show their power. …